[postgis-users] Trouble Installing PostGIS 1.5.2 on Enterprise Linux

[Paragon Corporation]

Tom,
 
Its unclear from your note if this is your problem, but from experience, the
most common problem people run into when compiling PostGIS on Cent OS/Red
Hat EL is the binding between the geos library linking  and postgis-1.5.so.
 
We documented a workaround here -
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/147-Compiling-PostGIS-1.5-and
-installing-after-Yum-PostgreSQL-Install.html 
-- way down in the problems section
 
Basically you want to check to make sure the links are right by running
ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so 
ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so | grep libgeos   
ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so | grep libproj   
 
And then correct them.  We just change the symlinks to point to the right
place -- which we have documented in the above article.
 
I think Mark Cave-Ayland or Sandro Santilli had a more elegant way of fixing
this issue, but can't find that item.  
If they are around, maybe they can chime in on this.
 
 We should probably note this in the installation and FAQ some where since
it seems several people have been bitten by this.

As a side note  --with-pgsql is obsolete -- you should be using --
--with-pgconfig=FILE  (where FILE is path to your postgresql config)

Leo and Regina
http://www.postgis.us

 

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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Tom
Liebert
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:02 PM
To: postgis-users
Subject: [postgis-users] Trouble Installing PostGIS 1.5.2 on Enterprise
Linux


I've got some experience installing PostGIS on Postgres 8.4 running on
Ubuntu Linux, but am running into issues on CentOS 5.5.  I've got all
dependencies installed: Geos-3.2.2, Proj-4.7.0, GDAL/OGR 1.7.2 (!),
libxml2-2.7.6 and everything seems to go well during my configure:
//----------------

./configure --with-pgconfig=/usr/bin/pg_config \
--with-xml2config=/usr/local/src/libxml2-2.7.6/xml2-config \
--with-proj \
--with-geosconfig=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \

--with-pgsql
//----------------
The make results:
//----------------
PostGIS was built successfully. Ready to install.
//----------------
But make install isn't as neat:
//----------------
/bin/sh /usr/lib64/pgsql/pgxs/src/makefiles/../../config/install-sh -c
shp2pgsql /usr/bin
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/loader'
//----------------
And, my resulting attempts to create a PostGIS database do not succeed.
Here's my commands:

#login as postgres
sudo su postgres
#create database stuff
createdb example_db
createlang plpgsql example_db
psql -d example_db -f /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql

psql -d example_db -f
/usr/share/pgsql/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql
#logout of postgres user
exit

Anyone have advice on what to look for in a successful install?